When I think about voting in the coming election, I think about my family’s experience.
abortion
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Analysis: How the threat of ‘taxpayer-funded abortion’ mobilizes conservative religious voters
Campaigns to prevent tax dollars from funding abortion have kept anti-abortion activists and other Republican voters engaged for decades – even when a ban on legal abortion seemed unlikely.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Low-wage workers bear financial brunt of denied abortions
It has always been difficult to be pregnant on the job and to raise a child, but especially so for low-wage workers.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Second woman accuses Herschel Walker of pressuring her to have an abortion
A second woman came forward saying Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker pressured her to have an abortion, driving her to a clinic and waiting for hours in the parking lot.
Posted inNation & World, News
Justice Alito says leaked abortion opinion made majority ‘targets for assassination’
The justice says the leak of his draft opinion on Roe v. Wade was a ‘grave betrayal of trust by somebody and it was a shock.’
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, News
Abortion ruling means more births, more infant deaths in Mississippi
Mississippi has the nation’s highest fetal mortality rate, highest infant mortality rate, highest pre-term birth rate and is among the worst states for maternal mortality.
Posted inNation & World, News
Pentagon to provide funds, help for troops seeking abortions
Access to abortion has become a central issue in the midterm elections.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Get your abortion pills before you need them
Mifepristone and misoprostol are safer than Tylenol. And by keeping them on hand, I won’t be putting my future in anyone’s hands but my own.
Posted inNation & World, News
At least 66 U.S. clinics have halted abortions, institute says
The number of clinics providing abortions in the 15 states dropped from 79 before the June 24 decision to 13 as of Oct. 2.
Posted inElection 2022, Maine, Politics
Abortion stances of Mills and LePage both likely disappointed their supporters
To the chagrin of their bases, both gubernatorial candidates claim they would not change Maine’s abortion law.